A Look into Fox’s ‘Gotham’

I’m a huge Batman fan but I barely touched on Fox’s new show Gotham. I always wanted a live action version of Batman that was more focused on him being a detective. A live action TV show of that sounds even better. Gotham, though, has Bruce Wayne as a child and Jim Gordon as the main character.

So close.

I lost interest because of just that. I know, I know — it’s a silly reason.

But things changed. Thanks, Comic-Con.

We saw the screening of the first episode of Gotham at Comic-Con. It quickly reminded me of Batman: The Animated Series. There was a timeless quality to the set design. And with Gordon was his antagonistic partner, Harvey Bullock.

I was sold.

Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and Bullock (Donal Logue) have that familiar chemistry — at odds with each other while on the job; Gordon wanting to clean the city up properly, and Bullock, whose heart is in the right place, but has a tendency to play dirty. It’s survival thing for him really, in a city overtaken by corruption.

The episode was intriguing and fun. A lot of the characters were established and their connection to each other — if there is one. The city is dangerous. And you can already see some of the damage done to Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) after his parents’ murder.